Top Five Things Holding you Back from Losing Fat Fast

You may feel you are doing all the things necessary to lose fat.  Eating supportively, exercising regularly.  However, the results just don’t seem to be coming as quickly as you like, or even not at all.  Fortunately there is hope.   There may be a few things that you are missing from you plan that can make all the difference in accelerating your results.  Here are five of the most popular overlooked things that can trigger sluggish changes in your body.

1. Are your workouts intense enough?  You may workout 5-6 times a week but if you are not challenging yourself every workout, you may not be training hard enough to see results.  A helpful tip on this is to take one thing every workout and set a personal best at it.  For example, if you are doing a circuit and normally train with a certain weight, try increasing the weight by 5 pounds.  This will ensure continued progress and you will avoid plateaus.  It may also be just what you need to start seeing changes happen more quickly

2. Vary your food choices.  Eating the same thing for too long can do a couple of things.  First, your body will get used to the same foods all the time and will start to acclimate itself on how to metabolize it.  Since, we want to eat foods that require the maximum amount of work by the digestive system, this works against us.  Secondly, boredom is one of the biggest reasons people fail to stick to their fat loss plans (difficulty is another).  Choosing a variety of foods with flavor will go a very long way to ensuring your success.

3. Sleep and Multivitamin forgetfulness.  Too often these two areas are overlooked.  However, they shouldn’t be underestimated.  Lack of all vitamin and minerals can hinder your metabolism and lack of rest and recovery can hinder the growth of lean muscle and shedding of body fat.  As important as the workouts are, your recovery is even more important as it is in recovery that fat loss and changes happen.
4. Real Strength Training.  Similar to number 1, intensity is important.  However, often intensity is seen as moving faster or going longer.  Fat loss intensity is those things in part.  However, what really accelerates results is resistance amount, frequency, and alternating speed (interval).  Resistance amount or (weight) is too often overlooked in fat loss training.  Lifting heavy weights must be a key component.  Sure circuit training is very effective, but if you add a heavy lift before your circuits, you set yourself up for even better results.  This also plays into number 2 with boredom as this will eliminate that boredom from your workouts.

5. Water intake.  You must take in half your bodyweight in ounces of water per day.  And that is if you are NOT exercising.  So, since you are exercising, you must take in more.  Water transports nutrients and makes up most of your muscle tissue.  To ensure a high running metabolism, you must be hydrated or everything slows down.  Lack of water can mean lack of results and is just as important as any other component to a fat loss program, so do not overlook it.

Food and exercise, food and exercise.  It isn’t just these two things that will make you successful. They are the core pieces to fat loss success, but all parts must be in place for maximum results and minimum frustration.  If you are struggling run a checklist of these five mentioned items and if you are not practicing them consistently, they may be the key to accelerating slow results in your program.